http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:11:40 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/10/072210.php#comment-405372 Dianne, I'm not entirely convinced that both you and AlbertaLife aren't right and wrong at the same time. I think that there are loopholes in the regulations that need to be plugged, like the ones which allow networks to show a lot of their Cancon during the summer, and which define "peak viewing hours" (aka "prime time") in such a way that the evening and late night local newscasts count towards a station's peak viewing hour quota. Make the stations make the quota on a quarterly basis rather than an annual one is just one way to go. At the same time we need to find some way to encourage quality programming in shows that aren't co-productions with some foreign network or did we all forget the farce that was Canwest's "Adventures of Sinbad", shot in South Africa and money from All-American TV and with only a couple of Canadian Actors and government money to make it "Canadian". ]]> 405372@blogcritics.org Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:11:40 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/10/072210.php#comment-405312 I hate to say it, but I don't know that more Canadian content is the answer right now, when we can't produce and promote what is on the air now properly. I think we should focus on doing it right first, then doing more of it. ]]> 405312@blogcritics.org Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:50:21 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/07/10/072210.php#comment-405308 We have not done enough in terms of Canadian content, and a lot of the CanCon we have simply sucks (e.g., Jeff Ltd., which is a textbook example of what happens when untalented actors and writers get together). I have been lamenting the lack of CanCon, and I have been calling for the adoption of European law, which states that you have to show 60% domestic content. ]]> 405308@blogcritics.org Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:39:06 EDT